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Tuesday, November 14, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
KU maps out geography week Programs intended to educate and increase student interest
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Professors at the University of Kansas say they want people to know where the Pacific Ocean is before they reach college.
Gov. Mike Hayden's proclamation of Nov. 12-18 as Geography Awareness Week will help to develop an awareness program for geography at Sorenson, chairman of geography.
Sorenson, who spoke yesterday at Soron-
sion Junior High School, 2743 Louisiana St., about soil conservation,
which he planned to commemorate the week.
He said that programs to help
grade-school students gain interest in geography already were in practice.
George McCleary, associate professor of geography, has been involved with one of the programs, the Kansas City Chiefs' Gridron Geography Program, for several years.
The KU geography department provides maps for the program.
As part of the program, children discuss the places where the Chiefs will play and study the geography of that location.
"The map comes with a scale, and it can men my new form, from Karen Gunzman, McClure said."
KU is also working to increase
interest at the college level, Sorenson said.
Sorenson said that KU ranked third in the United States by the Association of American Geographers in the number of students enrolling in geography courses.
"We went from a 36th ranking in 1967 to a third ranking in 1988," he said. "We doubled our enrollment in geography classes."
He said he thought that enrollment had increased in part because geography was increasingly being used in other areas.
David Frayer, chairman of anthropology, said geography and anthropology were almost inseparable.
"Especially cultural anthropology fits into geography," he said. "It gives us a consideration of people who live around here. We find bones and teeth of people, and we are able to see the movement of people."
McCleary said that students in one of his classes were asked to map the states of the United States.
"Less than half had 40 states," he said.
"Rumans adapt to local environments they live in. If you're living in a high altitude, it's very hard to grow corn."
In 1988 when KU won the national basketball championship, McCleary said that students in some history and other classes were asked to identify cities where the basketball team played.
"A lot of them couldn't find the cities on the map," he said. "Who really cares about East Rutherford, N.J., anyway, right?"
Parking Board plan would raise permit prices
A budget proposal calling for next year's rules changes and across-the-board increases in parking permit prices will be presented to the University Senate Executive Committee Nov. 27.
The draft of the Parking Department budget for fiscal year 1991 was approved Thursday by the Parking Department, a fulltime, assistant director of parking.
Morris Faiman, chairman of the Parking Board, said an increase in the department's revenue would
counter a projected shortfall. He said if no extra revenue came in, the department would operate in the red.
By Liz Hueben Kansan staff writer
The first draft of the budget, which Faiman said might undergo minor changes before presented to SenEx, cites $10 increases in yellow, red and blue permits and $12 increases in green permits at Sunflower House and Alumni Place. Smaller increases are cited for other permits.
Faiman said revenue had to cover the expenditures of the department including salaries and benefits of its employees, utilities and maintenance costs for the lots and garage on
campus. Those costs vary from year to year.
"We have to have the money to operate the system," he said. "Anytime you have to raise prices, people are unhappy."
Faiman stressed the fact that the Parking Department did not receive any state funds for its operations.
He said revenue came from five sources: permits, fines, meter income, event parking and facilities in the garage garage north of Allen Field House.
Dana Goble, chairman of the board's budget committee, said,
"The board has to project into the future. We cannot be reactive to situations. We are thinking about the future."
Company markets programs overseas
One of the more significant changes to the parking rules and regulations, according to the draft, will be a towing policy in Alumni Place, lots 100 and 121. Students living in the scholarship halls had requested stricter enforcement of the rules in those lots.
The proposal reads, "Because of the continuing problem of encroachment, simply ticketing in this area has not been effective."
Yesterday, Interactive Concepts sold one of the survey's computer programs to a Hong Kong company for about $17,000 after people from around the world gathered and presented it on a video teleconference, president Mike Fragale said.
By Travis Butler Kansan staff writer
Exotic methods have gained substantial results for a Lawrence company working with the Kansas Geological Survey at KU.
requirements in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He said that one-eighth of the students' required courses were from the college and that the rest were engineering courses.
"We've got confirmation on a fax today that they are going to buy a package as a result of the conference," he said.
School makes plans to offer honors courses in engineering
"I guess we've always known it was there, but we kind of ignored it," he said. "What we need to do now is educate both the students and faculty about it. I think it's important to get involved in because it offers some prestige and an opportunity to take courses other than what is required."
The package is one of two that Interactive Concepts markets for the survey, Fragale said. It is an outgrowth of an earlier program designed by the survey for contour mapping.
Green said not many students had been involved in the program before because, historically, engineering honors students had to fulfill honors
Diane Goddard, assistant director of the survey, said Interactive Concepts was started last year to market software created by the survey and other KU departments.
"We literally demonstrated the capabilities of the package as if they were in the same room with us," he said.
He said the committee wanted to make a change by having engineering courses count in the honors program. The School of Engineering presently does not offer honors courses.
"It's a lot of work to do this successfully," she said of the marketing. "We may develop something that's useful from our research. At that point, it's not our job to pick up the ball and market it. It takes away from our true mission."
"Basically, what we've been doing is trying to get the engineering school started in using it and getting students more interested in participating," Green said.
Only one person at a time can use the program on a work station, but many can use the minicomputer version at the same time, he said. That is why the company charges more for the minicomputer version. The program designed for the work station costs about $17,000, and the
Fragale said that the program sold to Hong Kong was designed to run on desktop work stations, minicomputers and mainframe computers. Work stations are cheaper machines that cost $20,000 to $30,000, compared to about $50,000 for a minicomputer.
He said that about 25 percent of the students in engineering were eligible for the honors program but that the number participating was lower.
minicomputer and mainframe versions cost closer to $34,000.
Goddard said that because both of the packages were so new, it would be hard to predict how much the survey could make in sales a year. She said she would hope the survey could make $20,000 to $25,000 from the programs this year. The money goes directly into the survey's outside-income account.
The survey gets a percentage of each sale, Fragale said. He could not disclose the actual percentage because of the terms of the company's agreement with the survey, but he said it would not royalty rate." The percentage depends on the number of comparable software packages available.
Fragile said that sales could be going better.
"When we get it, we plow it right back into research," she said.
"Our problem is being recognized as a name in the marketplace," he said. "People have to be confident in a company to feel comfortable with its service and support. Because we are so new, we don't have the name recognition yet."
Engineering students are not utilizing the College Honors Program to its fullest, engineering faculty members said.
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
Harvey Doemland, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, said the faculty never pushed the honors program.
The company is working to change that by advertising and participating in trade shows, Fragale said. It also is using its connection with the survey.
But Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said a committee had been created in the school to determine how faculty members could better advise students in the program.
"Every opportunity we have, we play up the fact that we're publishing for the Kansas Geological Survey," he said. "They're maybe the most prolific developer of all of the state geological surveys in the country. In terms of stature, regarding where they rank, they're either number two or three in the country. That is a big plus for us."
Goddard said she wanted to see other departments working with Interactive Concepts.
"I would love to see other departments who produce these products as an offshoot of their research do this," she said. "You can use something to death in house but never think of it being sulful in the outside world."
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